I am a Burmese exile taking a near-permanent refuge in New York and Sydney. Here are my essays about Burma and anything else I feel like writing about. And posting the articles I like from selected sites. Bridging Burma to the world this Blog is more of a Politically-Oriented Literary Blog than a Plain News Blog or a Sophisticated Thoughts Blog.

Shin Wirathu’s Open Letter To Time’s Hannah Beech

I nationalist Buddhist Monk U Wira Thu is writing this
letter to you. When you came to us, we had treated you and your photographer
with hospitability. You know we had done our best to help you and your
photographer to get what you want.

We had helped you only with the good volition that we want
the media and correspondents get the true facts. We helped you because we
respect western liberal media like Times and we expected you wouldn’t make lies
to the people of the world.

And we did not think you would break ethic and
responsibility of media. Now I know that you are the worst visitors we have
ever had.

I could not see the hatred behind your smiles. I could not
see your ruthlessness under your tender actions. I could not see your deceit
under your sweet words it is like blade covered by honey.

I did not think
that a gentle and beautiful girl like you have the ruthless heart of performing
savages attack on us to be heard all over the world. I could not think that
because of my background may be as you said I was a vagabond.

I had told you that those names such as Shaved Head Nazi,
Neo Nazi, Burmese Bin Laden were given by Muslims on Facebook.

And then liberal media like you dare use the word like “The
Buddhist Monk, The Title "Burmese Binladen" I believe (think) you
admit your dirty mind by deliberately using the word “The Buddhist Monk” then
followed by the word “With the man in burgundy robes.”

You are not a lady with high moral ground and you are same
as dirty minded as extremists all over the world. Muslims are also like you
want me to strip of the robe. They do not revere me as a Monk and call me “the
man in the robe.”

My preaching is
not burning with hatred as you say. Only your writing is full of hate speech.
We can forgive the misunderstanding. We can forgive wrong conclusion. But will
you deny that your hatred words targeted me to tarnish my reputation.

Please recheck your words and the words that I preached.

“Now is not the time for calm.” “Now is the time to rise up
to make your blood boil.”

These are your words. Now I show my words.

"969 is for
peace, We should preserve these noble reputations of Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.
For our National cause, our Culture and our Faith, We will avoid terror act.
Upholding three gems (Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha) We will perform with honesty,
diligence and determined attempts. For our national cause, We will carry out it
warmly without ignorance.”

These are my words. It is clear that you made savage attack
against me by switching my words with your words.

I preach people not to react with lawlessness, but you
accused me of terrorist. You tried to draw a picture of me as a person who
aggravate the situation by hate speech and fuelling to make offensive attack,
where I am preaching people to perform with honesty, diligence and determined
attempts to preserve our value.

I preach people to carry out national cause warmly without
ignorance, than you gave the world bad impression of me who is trying to boil
the blood of people. How dare you did that?

With sustained loving-kindness,

Ven. Wira Thu

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Oxymoron Time Magazine's oxymoron word "Buddhist Terror".

Clash of Civilization in Burma, between Peaceful-Buddhist-Natives
and Violent-Muslim-Illegal-Immigrants from Bangladesh.

(Blogger notes: Recently our Shin Wirathu had been giving unlimited access and open interviews freely to so many western journalists this Hannah Beech's breach of trust and her twisting of his words was inevitable.

One thing most simple Burmese with limited media skills still do not know is every media outlet and their journalists are universally biased to either left or right politically and they always have hidden agendas. Shin Wirathu now bitterly found out the now-very-obvious fact that Ms. Hannah Beech already had had a bad opinion of him even before she met him in person.

If one claims to be a nationalist - as our Shin Wirathu proudly does - one is bound to be labelled by the left-wing liberal media outlets like Time Magazine as a right-wing conservative. In Shin Wirathu's case Time and Ms. Hannah Beech went much further and blindly labelled him as an extreme-nationalist aka Buddhist terrorist.

Anyone can see the Time's obvious bias towards the Muslims or against us Buddhists by comparing two feature articles namely "Iran on the Inside" and "Buddhist Terror" both of which were next to each other in same July 1, 2013 issue of Time magazine.

So as a precaution our Shin Wirathu should start screening the interviewers - doing research on their backgrounds and political standings and especially their previous articles - before giving them access. Please do not meet them if a favorable outcome is not expected.

For example, in the United States, the Muslim-appeasing left-wing Democrats like President Barack Obama will never give interview to the right-wing conservative media like Fox News and the anti-Islamist conservative Republicans like ex-president George Bush will never appear on the Left-wing Socialist media like MSNBC.

And Shin Wirathu should also meticulously record every single conversation with these so-called journalists just to prevent this Hannah Beech-like incident from repeating again.)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------